Episode Details

Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business. We have one awesome episode in store for you guys. In this episode, we’re talking about 2017’s Satan’s Slaves and 2018’s Don’t Leave Home, both Shudder exclusives.

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We start by briefly discussing the concept of spoiler culture and then discuss what we’ve done recently involving horror. Liam talks about catching a recent screening of Knife + Heart and Justin talks about attending Monsterpalooza in Los Angeles, meeting Carly and Amy from the Final Girls podcast, and we the both talk about seeing the remake of Pet Sematary.

We begin by talking about Satan’s Slaves. We give a brief plot outline of the movie, and Justin talks about how the movie is very successful in setting up an atmosphere of terror and eeriness.

Liam discusses how the film, given its proximity to East Asia (the film itself is Indonesian), is very reminiscent of some Asian horror films and modern horror films as well, in addition to some horror films of the ’70s. We discuss how a turn in the third act changes much of the film’s mood retroactively.

We discuss how much of the movie feels somewhat disjointed and disconnected. The cohesion of the family unit is touched up, and some of the creepier sce